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Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 1 1 Browse Search
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Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Additional Sketches Illustrating the services of officers and Privates and patriotic citizens of South Carolina. (search)
erved in the Confederate army. Theodore A. Bell, the father, was born in Beaufort county, S. C., and was a merchant until his State called her sons to arms. Then forsaking the pursuits of peace he enlisted as a member of the Beaufort volunteer artillery. His health failing, he was mustered out in 1863 and from that time until the close of the war he served in the quartermaster's and treasury departments, at Columbia and Anderson, S. C. He died June 30, 1882. He had married, in 1841, Miss Mary Chaplin and they had nine children, five of whom were sons, and two of whom served in the Confederate army, Ernest A. and John. The latter served throughout the entire war as a private in the Beaufort volunteer artillery, and died in December, 1889. Ernest A. Bell was reared to the age of eighteen in Beaufort county. In January, 1860, he entered the South Carolina military academy and was a student there until 1862, when he gave up his studies to enter the service of his country. Joining t